Headliners Eddie Alvarez ($100,000) and Shinya Aoki ($60,000) were the top earners at this past weekend's Bellator 66 event.
MMAjunkie.com today requested and received the list of disclosed paydays from the Ohio Athletic Commission.
While Bellator's salaries usually are consistent due to the structured pay of its tournaments, Alvarez and Aoki provided a rare, non-title super fight between two of the sport's top-ranked lightweights.
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UFC lightweight Donald Cerrone ($60,000) and co-feature participant Amir
Sadollah ($48,000) were the top earners at Tuesday's UFC on FUEL TV 3
event.
They accounted for 22 percent of the event's $481,000 payroll.
MMAjunkie.com today requested and received the list
of official disclosed paydays from Virginia's Department of Professional
and Occupational Regulation.
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Official Bellator 66 fighter weigh-ins took place today, and all fighters easily made weight.
Today's festivities took place at Great Lakes Ballroom at Cleveland's I-X Center.
Both Eddie Alvarez and Shinya Aoki were on weight for their highly anticipated rematch in Bellator 66's headliner. Both fighters weighed 154.5 pounds.
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Veteran fighter Jake Shields was the top earner at this past weekend’s WSOF 17 event after earning a disclosed payday of $65,000, of which $35,000 was a win bonus.Filed under: News, Videos read news >>

Conor McGregor plus three of the four combatants in the main and co-main events at UFC 178 were the highest salaried fighters on the payroll. The UFC 178 salaries are out, and the flyweight champion is your highest earner. Demetrious Johnson netted $183,000 (including a $54,000 win bonus) for his submission win over Chris Cariaso, who pocketed $24,000. Eddie Alvarez earns a $100,000 base pay in his UFC debut, which is higher than his initial $70k/$70k salary the UFC planned to start him with las read news >>

At UFC 178, UFC fighter Donald Cerrone defeated former Bellator top dog Eddie Alvarez. So what did this teach us about the UFC vs. Bellator debate? Less than you may think. There was a certain catharsis to Saturday night's co-main event of UFC 178. On paper, the fight was Donald Cerrone vs. Eddie Alvarez, but it was seen as so much more than that. It was UFC vs. Bellator. It was the king of MMA promotions vs. all the worldwide contenders to the throne. And as the welt grew on the discolored and read news >>